I have enjoyed listening to Blair Braverman on #YoureWrongAbout podcast telling detailed survival and disaster stories. I'm subscribed to her new podcast #WhatToCarryWhatToBurn. I'm waiting for the story of Ada to finish and plan to listen to the episodes all at once.

It's for this reason I was excited to see she wrote a novel. I bought and read it all in one day. I'm still processing the events, the characters and how I feel about them. I recommend it highly for anyone who's enjoyed her work telling real-life stories. It builds on reality to explore what that means in today's reality TV and how people deal with group dynamics and uncertainty in the entertainment context as well as true survival.

I was disappointed the author didn't read her own work, but Kristen Sieh did a great job with the characters and keeping me in the story.

Small Game by Blair Braverman
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780063066236-small-game

#bookston #survival

THIRD CANDLE
as
we
were
trying
to hold
on

were
we
alive

grasping

pitiful
memory of self
it's pitfalls

moist golden dirt
as the desert winter
reigns and everything's

blooming

and the electric candle
of the recollection is dimming

as the distant scream
touches you

in a flicker

@bookstodon @poetry

#bookston #poetry

Einmal dürft ihr raten, welche #GothicNovel ich kürzlich bei #Google recherchiert hatte …

#bookston #bücher

Visited a frankly incredible bookshop today that included a (necessary) map as well as directory

Scriveners - Buxton
#Buxton #bookston #bookshop

I have completed the second draft of my next science fiction novella. It has a mathematical twist. It might be the best thing I've ever written.

#books #bookston #scifi #nerd #amwring

The Boy in the Red Dress by Kristin Lambert #audiobook is #free through #AudioFileMagazine. It is on my reading list now.

Link to AudioFile Promotion: https://audiofilemagazine.com/sync/

#bookston #BookToot #BookTooters #KristinLambert #History #Mystery #Trans #LGBTQIA #Queer #Gay